No Reason To Prohibit Abortion

July 12, 1989|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

There is no scientific or secular reason to prohibit abortion which is a safe, and still legal, procedure. The reasons for abortion prohibitions are religious, on which there are religious disagreements.

Because our state legislature may attempt to put legal restrictions on access to abortion, women may have to buy their constitutional right to religious liberty - buy their right to control their own bodies. Would the law force a man to donate a kidney?

The U.S. Supreme Court is turning back the medical clock for many families. The government should not be given the power to manage women's pregnancies. The recent court ruling is a sad day for the First Amendment to our Constitution - a sad day for the separation of church and state - a sad day for religious liberty - a sad day for poor women.